There has been no new MERS-CoV infections in South Korea for the past 5 days, although there are now 35 deaths in 186 patients (case fatality rate of 18.8%) in total. This is the longest stretch without any new cases in South Korea to date. From the WHO report, it seems that there are still 566 contacts being monitored whereas 16,102 (!) contacts have been pronounced free of possible infection.